Hi, a general question: it looks like kotlin can b...

# webassembly

[Laurent Thiebaud]

Hi, a general question: it looks like kotlin can be compiled to wasm for browser only
do you know if there are plans to generate a server-side wasm application also?

[Robert Jaros]

There are two K/Wasm targets - wasmJs and wasmWasi.

[andylamax]

kotlin can be compiled for server side as well

[andylamax]

there is wasmJs - for nodejs

and wasmWasi for wasi compliant modules

[Laurent Thiebaud]

my bad, I didn't see it, thanks gratitude thank you

[Edoardo Luppi]

Basically it depends if you need JS interop.
If you don't, use WASI

[darkmoon_uk]

Are there any current or near-future use-cases where its preferable to target WASI for Server-Side Apps than, say, a JVM Application in a Docker Container? Is this 'solution' ultimately a case of resource usage efficiency?

[Edoardo Luppi]

WASI offers its own component model. You can build a WASI component and use it alongside other components built in whatever other language.
You can't do that on the JVM.

[Edoardo Luppi]

Or better, you could, but there are nowhere as many languages as the ones that target WebAssembly (and WASI specifically).

[Edoardo Luppi]

You can also emulate the WASI component model spec in the browser to a certain extent.
That's what VS Code is doing when offering a WASI layer to build extensions on top of it.